Flora: Inside the Secret World of Plants by DK [Dorling Kindersley] with contribution by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2018. Dorling Kindersley. Dorling Kindersley’s Flora: Inside the secret world of plants [hereafter...
Tag - fruits
Nigel Chaffey
Fossil fruits reveal Late Cretaceous rise of Cornales, the dogwood order
The asterids (>80 000 living species) appear in the fossil record with considerable diversity during the Late Cretaceous (~90 Ma) and are strongly represented by Cornales (order of dogwoods). These early cornaleans have...
Alex Assiry
Primary metabolism as a major component of fruit growth and quality
Beauvoit and colleagues argue the metabolic processes in fruits are similar enough to make understanding primary metabolism a useful way to improve fruit quality.
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More reasons to like plants
How helpful is healthy eating advice, if you don't have the money for making choices?
Has spring sprung yet?
It's not just humans waiting for Spring - recent research reveals that microbes are also looking forward to the new growth of plants.
Proteaceae, Banksia, Macadamia nuts and the Annals of Botany Cover
Our videoblog discusses plants in the family Proteaceae, a well-known Southern hemisphere family with many beautiful and well-known representatives in Africa and Australia. The striking red flowers of the genus...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison